Word: plights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wife preparing for a fireworks celebration. When finally he gets started he is continually interrupted by arriving guests, and is further discomfited by twice having to contradict an official order at the request of his persuasive wife. In the third act, much amusement is again found in the plight of the governor, who for the first time in his life presides at a bull-fight, and is quite unable to cope with the whims of the vacillating crowd, which at one moment applauds him and the next drowns out the noise of the band with its hisses...
...goes to Bill's head, in spite of the fact that he is disappointed when he learns it is from the mayor," as he doesn't "want anything more to do with horses." Fortunately Mable isn't neglected for long, and the audience is spared wasting sympathy over there plight, because a naval aviator, Jack Wing, keeps here from getting lonely while Gwendolyn, the step-daughter of the rich Mrs. Pettigrew, is pursuing Bill at a Long Island country club. For a short time, the audience can only pin their faith on the author to bring Bill and Mable together...
...vigorous and well-preserved. She could not understand the cowardice of her champions. They might have faltered, she reflected, had she ever allowed a thought to furrow her bleak brow. But she was sure she had never done that. Had she been a wanton, she thought, her plight might be explainable. But had she not, year after year, proclaimed to the world her immaculate chastity...